{"id":38202,"date":"2019-03-31T14:23:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T14:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38202"},"modified":"2019-03-31T14:23:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T14:23:07","slug":"pope-urges-catholics-in-morocco-to-dialogue-not-proselytize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38202","title":{"rendered":"Pope urges Catholics in Morocco to dialogue, not proselytize"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"79\">\n<p>\nTUNIS: Any moves to undermine Syria\u2019s sovereignty over the Golan Heights should be rejected, Saudi Arabia\u2019s King Salman told the Arab League summit on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\nUS President Donald Trump last week signed a proclamation recognizing the Golan as Israeli, less than four months after saying Jerusalem is Israel\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>\nKing Salman said at the Arab League summit in Tunis that he absolutely rejects\u00a0any measures that impact on Syrian sovereignty over the Golan Heights.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe reaffirm our absolute\u00a0rejection of any measures that encroach upon Syrian sovereignty over the Golan, and we stress the importance of reaching a political solution to the Syrian crisis that will guarantee Syria&#8217;s security, unity and sovereignty and prevent foreign intervention in accordance with the Geneva Declaration and Security Council resolution 2254.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nHe also reiterated Saudi Arabia\u2019s position supporting the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as its capital. He said the Palestinian issue was a top priority for Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>\nTunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi said that the Golan Heights is occupied Arab land, and rejected\u00a0the US decision over sovereignty of territory.<\/p>\n<p>\nArab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said that the US decision\u00a0is contrary to all international conventions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nArab League spokesman Mahmoud Afifi said earlier that the 22-member bloc will aim to issue a proclamation affirming the international consensus that the Golan is occupied Syrian land.<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, Qatar\u2019s Sheikh Tamim abruptly left the Arab League summit after it opened and did not give a speech, Qatar News Agency reported.\u00a0It did not give a reason for why he left the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe annual summit will also address the issue of readmitting Syria as a member of the Arab League, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iranian interference in Arab countries, and the war in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe pan-Arab bloc froze Syria&#8217;s membership in 2011 over a bloody government crackdown on protesters.<\/p>\n<p>\nMany Arab countries have recently renewed ties with the government of President Bashar Assad.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUNIS: Any moves to undermine Syria\u2019s sovereignty over the Golan Heights should be rejected, Saudi Arabia\u2019s King Salman told the Arab League summit on Sunday. US President Donald Trump last week signed a proclamation recognizing the Golan as Israeli, less than four months after saying Jerusalem is Israel\u2019s capital. King Salman said at the Arab&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}